Editing Great Plains (section)

==Wind power==
[[File:GreenMountainWindFarm Fluvanna 2004.jpg|thumb|left|[[Wind farm]] in the plains of [[West Texas]]]]
The Great Plains contributes substantially to [[wind power in the United States]]. [[T. Boone Pickens]] developed wind farms after a career as a petroleum executive, and he called for the U.S. to invest $1&nbsp;trillion to build an additional 200,000&nbsp;MW of wind power in the Plains as part of his [[Pickens Plan]]. He cited [[Sweetwater, Texas]], as an example of economic revitalization driven by wind power development.<ref name="oilman_wind_power">
{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/business/25868279.html |title=Legendary Texas oilman embraces wind power |newspaper=[[Star Tribune]] |access-date=August 24, 2008 |date=July 25, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727134710/http://www.startribune.com/business/25868279.html |archive-date=July 27, 2008}}</ref><ref name="oil_addiction">{{cite web |url=https://www.sightline.org/2008/07/09/texas-oil-man-says-we-can-break-the-addiction/ |title=Texas Oil Man Says We Can Break the Addiction |work=Sightline Daily |access-date=August 24, 2008 |date=July 9, 2008 |last=Fahey |first=Anna |url-status=live |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801005045/https://www.sightline.org/2008/07/09/texas-oil-man-says-we-can-break-the-addiction/}}</ref><ref name="pickens_order">
{{cite web |url=http://www.windtoday.net/info/articles.html?ID=57318 |title=T. Boone Pickens Places $2&nbsp;Billion Order for GE Wind Turbines |work=Wind Today Magazine |access-date=August 24, 2008 |date=May 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001235615/http://www.windtoday.net/info/articles.html?ID=57318 |archive-date=October 1, 2008}}
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